NPR’s weekend edition had a story on Saturday about a new documentary on the ‘Toynbee tiles‘ — mosaic tiles embedded in the street in several different cities which read “Toynbee Idea: In Kubrick’s 2001, Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter” (or some variation thereof). There are a few in Chicago, but I went to check on the one near the Hancock at Michigan and Chestnut today and discovered that the CDOT was no respecter of mysterious outsider art.

The same tile in 2003*

* OK, this is kinda freaky — I took that old picture on September 26, 2003. Spooooky.

(via Daring Fireball)